Feasting With God: a Peace with Justice Retreat
Feasting With God: A Peace with Justice Retreat will be held at Chestnut Ridge Camp and Retreat Center in Efland, NC on Saturday, September 26 and Sunday, September 27, 2009. Participants will explore what it might mean to eat in a manner pleasing to God. Weekend activities include shopping for, cooking, and preserving fresh, local foods with the help of local chefs; celebration and thanksgiving for the season's harvest; film, discussion groups, worship...and of course, eating healthy, delicious food!
Retreat begins at 9 AM Saturday, September 26 and ends at 1 PM Sunday, September 27.
Registration fee: $55 (includes meals, lodging, and workshop materials)
Financial assistance is available. Registration is required. Space is limited.
Contact Chris Burtner chris@campchestnutridge.org or 919-338-2820
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Duram Farmers' Market Craft Day - September 26th, 8am to Noon
Our Market Craftspeople will be bringing their crafts to Market and demonstrating how they make their goods. Craft vendors throughout the Market will be doing demonstrations in their booths. Come with questions and prepare to be amazed.
DFM Chef in the Market - Shane Ingram & Janna Wardle, Four Square, September 26, 10am
It is spa day with Four Square at the Market! Shane will be joined by Janna Wardle, Four Square's pastry chef with a demonstration on how to pamper your self with food!
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Chapel Hill Creamery Farm Dinner
Monday, September 28, 5:30 - 9:00 pm
The evening begins with special dinner presentation: The cheesemakers of CHC visit Italy, and the world's biggest cheese festival!
For this delightful evening, Panzanella Chef Jim Nixon will create a menu of special dishes, showcasing the impressive quality and deliciousness of cheeses from Chapel Hill Creamery. (We will also offer a slightly abbreviated version of our regular dinner menu.) During the first hour, Chapel Hill Creamery owners and cheesemakers, Portia McKnight and Flo Hawley will be available to share with you what they've learned about the art of Italian cheese during their recent trip to Bra, Italy. Italian-born Alessandra Trompeo, who works as a cheesemaker at Chapel Hill Creamery, arranged the farm and creamery visits in Italy for McKnight and Hawley, and will also join the hour-long discussion, which takes place from 5:30 to 6:30.
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DFM Locally Grown Music - Black Dog Music, September 30th, 5:30-7:30pm
During the last Wednesday Market of the Season, Durham Central Park will host the final Locally Grown Music event of the season. Black Dog Music is the featured artist. Bring a blanket, pick up some tasty treats at the Market and listen to some great music.
Chef in the Market - Drew Smith & Andy Magowan, Piedmont, October 3rd
Drew and Andy will be kicking off Piedmont's Sausage Fest '09 at the Market on October 3rd!
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2nd Annual Piedmont Green Gala
T.S. Designs
2053 Willow Spring Lane
Burlington, NC 27215 US
Saturday, October 3, 2:00PM to 8:00PM
Phone: 336 229 6426 ext 260
T.S. Designs invites you to our 2nd Annual Piedmont Green Gala. Please join us in reconnecting with the local community in Alamance County. Local, now more than ever, is critical and the Green Gala is a celebration of our community's connection. Sustainable businesses and organizations will be highlighted throughout the day with ideas of how to live a greener lifestyle. Live music and local food will add a festive kick to this gala. Please plan to attend!
Please visit www.piedmontgreengala.com for details for the day.
Check out the Howie Dewitt Band that will be playing at the Green Gala! http://www.myspace.com/howiedewittmusic
Piedmont Biofarm Pittsboro Pepper Festival
Join us on Sunday, October 18 @ 4:00 – 7:00 pm for the Amazing Pittsboro Pepper Festival
at the Eco Industrial Plant in Pittsboro.
We’ll have over 40 different varieties of peppers from Farmer Doug Jones to taste and rank, over 12 different restaurants showing off their local pepper dishes, local beer and wine, Bobby’s Jalapeno Water Ice, spicy tunes from Howie Dewitt blues/funk band and a few minutes of education. Bring the kids and come on out!
Proceeds will benefit the Piedmont Biofarm Breeding and Research Program which is responsible for developing superior strains of vegetables especially adapted to our local soils and climate.
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